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ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education is the first comprehensive publication on plurilingualism, offering a multidimensional reflection on the nature, scope, and potential of plurilingualism in language education and society.

Authored by a range of internationally recognized experts, the Handbook provides an overview of key perspectives on plurilingualism in a complementary range of fields. After a comprehensive introduction to the concept itself, 24 chapters are organized in six parts, each examining plurilingualism through a different lens. The Handbook spans historical, philosophical, and sociological dimensions, examines cognitive and neuroscientific implications, and the limitations of boundaries before moving to a pragmatic perspective: How is plurilingual language education developing in different contexts around the world? How can it contribute to language revitalization? How can it be expected to develop in education, digital spaces, and society as a whole?

Written for an international audience, this handbook is an indispensable reference tool for scholars in education and applied linguistics, educators, graduate and post-graduate students, and policy makers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

An Introduction to Plurilingualism and This Handbook

Enrica Piccardo, Aline Germain-Rutherford, and Geoff Lawrence

Summaries of Chapters in the Handbook

PART I

Historical Perspectives on Plurilingualism

Edited by Brian North

1 Promoting Plurilingualism and Plurilingual Education: A European Perspective

Georges Lüdi

2 Plurilingualism and the Tangled Web of Lingualisms

Steve Marshall

3 The Mediated Nature of Plurilingualism

Enrica Piccardo

4 Cosmopolitanism and Plurilingual Traditions: Learning from South Asian and Southern African Practices of Intercultural Communication

Shakil Rabbi and Suresh Canagarajah

Part I: Critical Friend Response

Danièle Moore

PART II

Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives

Edited by Brian Morgan and Ian Martin

5 Language, Languaging, Plurilanguaging: Considerations on the Nature of Language and Language Education

Waldemar Martyniuk

6 Evaluating Theoretical Constructs Underlying Plurilingual Pedagogies: The Role of Teachers as Knowledge-Generators and Agents of Language Policy

Jim Cummins

7 Latin American Postcolonial Approaches to Plurilingualism: The Mexican Experience

Colette Despagne

8 Linguistic Hybridity and Global Mobility

Stephen Bahry

Part II: Critical Friend Response

Bonny Norton

PART III

The Plurilingual Individual: Cognition and Socialization

Edited by Claudia Maria Riehl

9 Neuroscience and Plurilingual Education: Trends for a Research Agenda

Claudia Maria Riehl

10 The Cognitive and Psychological Dimensions of Plurilingualism

Thomas H. Bak and Dina Mehmedbegovic-Smith

11 A Sociocognitive Theory for Plurilingualism: Complex Dynamic Systems Theory

Diane Larsen-Freeman and Elka Todeva

12 Plurilingual Creativity: A New Framework for Research in Plurilingual and Creative Practices

Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin

Part III: Critical Friend Response

Isabel Capron Puozzo

　

PART IV

Negotiating Boundaries: Plurilingual Expression

Edited by Bernd Rüschoff

13 Questioning Human and Material Boundaries in Plurilingual Identity Construction

Diane Dagenais, Geneviève Brisson, Magali Forte, and Gwénaëlle André

14 Social Sciences’ Last Hope: Giving Plurilingualism a Chance?

Jean-Claude Barbier

15 Online Plurilingual Interaction: Identity Construction and Development of Plurilingual Competence in Students and Teachers: A Focus on Intercomprehension

Maria Helena Araújo e Sá and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

16 What Can Theatre Contribute to Plurilingual Education?

Joëlle Aden

Part IV: Critical Friend Response

Jonas Erin

PART V

Plurilingualism, Pluriculturalism, and Practices in Language Education

Edited by Aline Germain-Rutherford and Geoff Lawrence

17 Plurilingual Mediation in the Classroom: Examples from Practice

Brian North

18 Intercomprehension: Strengths and Opportunities of a Pluralistic Approach

Maddalena De Carlo and Sandra Garbarino

19 Language Assessment in the Context of Plurilingualism

Nick Saville and Graham Seed

20 A Multi-Perspective Tour of Best Practices

Perspective 1: Plurilingual Education in Europe: Contexts, Initiatives and Ongoing Challenges

Emilee Moore and Mercè Bernaus

Perspective 2: Challenges to Implementing Best Practices in Complex Plurilingual Environments: The Case of South Asia

Shelley K. Taylor and Ajit K. Mohanty

Perspective 3: Plurilingualism in Southern Africa

Medadi E. Ssentanda and Bonny Norton

Perspective 4: Plurilingual Possibilities in the US: Beyond Translanguaging with Minoritized Bilinguals to Critical Multilingual Language Awareness for All Learners

Gail Prasad

Perspective 5: Plurilingual Teachers in a Monolingual Disguise: Linguistic Landscapes and Language Pedagogy in Two Brazilian Language Programmes

Angelica Galante

Perspective 6: Plurilingual Practices: A Canadian Perspective

Marie-Paule Lory

Perspective 7: Plurilingual Perspectives in Australian Education

Sue Ollerhead and Julie Choi

Part V: Critical Friend Response

Angel M. Y. Lin

PART VI

The Potential Future of Plurilingualism

Edited by Shelley Taylor and Enrica Piccardo

21 Language Revitalization as a Plurilingual Endeavour

Robert Elliott

22 Plurilingualism in Digital Spaces

Jérémie Séror

23 Examining the Nature and Potential of Plurilingual Language Education: Towards a Seven-Step Plurilingual Language Education Framework

Nathalie Auger

24 The Ongoing Role of the CEFR in Our Plurilingual Landscape

Bernd Rüschoff

Part VI: Critical Friend Response

Michele Gazzola

Index